<p>Purely out of curiousity (since I’m not even considering Upenn) would I have any type of advantage in applying since my uncle has been a professor there for like 15 years?</p>
<p>Yes, and shame on you ;). I'll take your spot though.</p>
<p>There's a checkbox on the application where you can check off if one of your relatives is a faculty member.</p>
<p>Don't know why you wouldn't consider penn. it's the best school ever. Oh well</p>
<p>can you lend me ur uncle?</p>
<p>On a similar note, having an uncle who graduated from Penn (father's brother) does not qualify as legacy, right?</p>
<p>it does if your uncle is the gay lover of dean stetson.(shhhh)</p>
<p>hahahahahha</p>
<p>JohnnyK, are you certain that there's a place on the application to tell Penn if a relative (outside of the immediate family) is a part of the Penn faculty? I sent in my application a few days ago, and I noticed that part only asked if parents were a part of the faculty. Here's the question they asked: </p>
<p>"Is Either Parent a Full Time Member of the Faculty or Staff of the University of Pennsylvania?"</p>
<p>I may have missed something while going through it the first time, but I don't see anything now. Just wanna clear something up!</p>
<p>"Don't know why you wouldn't consider penn. it's the best school ever. Oh well"</p>
<p>Mainly because I couldn't afford it hehe, don't qualify for finaid and didn't think ivies gave merit money.</p>
<p>Why don't you qulify for finaid? If you need finaid, you get it.</p>
<p>"Why don't you qulify for finaid? If you need finaid, you get it."</p>
<p>Hehe let me reiterate, my parents could afford it, I couldn't. They basically told me they will supply X dollars (enough to pay for a in state public school) and if I wanted to go anywhere else I had to find a way to pay the difference.</p>